Adult Life Skills

– Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a she..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 36 Minutes
Release Year:
2016
Adult Life Skills (2016)

Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.

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Genre:

Adult Life Skills (2016) - Trailer

Release Date:

18 Jan 2019

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
TV-MA – Unsuitable For Children

This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17 years old. It contains content that is unsuitable for children.

Director:

Rachel Tunnard

Writer:

Rachel Tunnard

Main Actors:

Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein, Rachael Deering

Plot:

Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

Awards:

5 wins & 7 nominations.

Production:

Screen Media Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
Metacritic:
49%